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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Obama’s State Of The Union Behavior “Very Troubling:” Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions. “So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, [...]

THE HILL: Alabama Dem lawmaker will break from campaign trail to oppose health reform. (Via NewsAlert).

JAC: There are things more important than politics. That is generally true — but when politics become more important, it’s usually a bad sign . . . .

PICS FROM THE TUCSON TEA PARTY PROTEST TODAY.

HEH: “The war is over. Drudge won it.”

A BATTERY CHARGER with a software backdoor that can compromise your computer. Good grief.

CHANGE: IRS to Track Online Sellers’ Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year.

NANCY PELOSI ON HEALTH CARE: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” This is what it’s come to.

STEWART BAKER ON LIZ CHENEY: Almost by definition, issues that split the Supreme Court can be argued either way. But these lawyers felt so strongly about these arguable principles that they sacrificed paying work and instead went to work without charge for people they loathed – just to turn their principles into law. Doesn’t this tell [...]

ANN ALTHOUSE ON GROPEGATE: “Groping.” There’s a loaded word. Can we have some details? Are the Democrats really policing their own? Does every member of Congress at Massa’s level of touchiness get investigated, or was this selective investigation? . . . I think they are all groping in one way or another. It’s nothing compared to what [...]

VIDEO: The Reagan/Obama Debate. Personally, I prefer Obamafeld. UPDATE: C.J. Burch emails: “And if you have to write Massa into Obamafeld, Jon Lovitz is your man.” Heh.

HEH: Psycho D-Rahm-a. “Does anyone know whether Rahm has a collection of stuffed birds? Or a fruit cellar?” UPDATE: “They have lowered the bar so far I don’t know what kind of world these people live in. I can’t imagine such a situation. This is so alien to the vast majority of Americans. [...]

REASSESSING FHA Risk. “As the Federal Housing Administration edges closer to a taxpayer bailout due to the large number of risky mortgage loans it has insured, it continues to insist that no such bailout will be required. However, a new study from a group of economists at New York University finds that the FHA’s [...]

BEYOND BREAKING FIREWALLS: How to fight Net censorship.

A SALE ON tools and home improvement gear.

TAKING ON THE PEOPLE WHO CLING BITTERLY TO THEIR . . . FISHING RODS? ESPN: Obama Moving to Limit Fishing Access. “The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.”

NO, IT’S NOT ABOUT RAHM EMANUEL: Creative Capos.

USING ONLINE DATING to ask out people you already know? UPDATE: Reader Steve Friedman writes: Several years ago, I was browsing OKCupid and it suggested a new “top match” to me. As I read her profile, she seemed to be the girl of my dreams. But as I kept reading, some of her responses [...]

NANOTECHNOLOGY VS. CANCER: “For a long time nanotechnology was one of those technologies that lay only in our future. It is starting to show up in our present. Cornell researchers have attached antibodies to nanoparticles to attack colorectal cancer cells.”

REPORT: Nissan has 56,000 pre-orders for all-electric Leaf. But are they real pre-orders, or just expressions of interest?

FAMILIAR TROPES: Matt Lauer picks, chooses “consensus.”

MATT LEWIS: Who are the swing votes for ObamaCare?

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND AlfonZo Rachel.

MAKING micro pirate radio.

THE WORLD’S FIRST commercial brain/computer interface.